Author Archives: dave cieslewicz

It’s Opening Day. The first day of the rest of our 162-game season. I love baseball. I probably watch or listen to 75% of the Brewers’ games, most from the opening pitch to the final out. My favorite way to enjoy the games is on my screened porch on Duck Lake while working on aContinue reading “Play Ball”

Tirein Steinbach wrote this: “Free speech and diversity, equity and inclusion are means to an end, and one that I think many people can actually agree on: to live in a country with liberty and justice for all its people”. I could not disagree more strenuously. Free speech is not merely the means to anContinue reading “Free Speech is an End in Itself”

Thank God for the Waukesha school district! They’re saving America from the vicious onslaught of rainbows. A radical first-grade teacher in Waukesha had programmed Rainbowland by Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton as part of the kids’ spring show. Then district administrators, led by courageous Superintendent James Sebert, got wind of the rainbows and shut themContinue reading “We Must Ban Rainbows”

Partisan politics has produced Supreme Court candidates who lack the character, temperament and intellect for the job. It’s time to appoint these positions. Our state high court has been spiraling down for years. A few years ago one justice was accused of attempting to strangle another. Last year former Justice Michael Gableman disgraced himself andContinue reading “Appoint Supreme Court Justices”

Emmanuel Macron has been an excellent leader of France. To quote the New York Times, “Economic reforms during his presidency have led to a sharp drop in unemployment. Job creation and foreign investment have surged. The French tech sector has grown exponentially.” They say the French work to live while Americans live to work. IContinue reading “Anybody Feel Sorry For The French?”

Doug La Follette left public office in the same way he held it: strangely.  La Follette resigned last week without warning, after just being reelected to yet another four-year term as Wisconsin’s secretary of state last November. He offered no real explanation and Gov. Tony Evers responded by immediately appointing former State Treasurer Sarah GodlewskiContinue reading “La Follette Leaves Question Marks”

Pres. Joe Biden’s first veto speaks awful volumes about the current state of the Democratic Party. The topic at hand may seem like an arcane issue. It’s called ESG. That stands for Environment, Social and Governance. As applied to investments, it means that money managers can take these things into account when making decisions. ThatContinue reading “ESG: Not For Me”

Why are liberals so unhappy? In a March 9th oped in the New York Times, David Brooks tries to understand why studies show that liberals are much less happy than conservatives. He has three theories. First, liberals tend to over-react, to see every bad thing as not just bad, but as the end of theContinue reading “It’s My Fault, It’s My Success”

Early voting started in Madison yesterday and we’ve gotten reports of voters showing up at their voting site, staring blankly at the ballot, and mumbling, “what would YSDA do?” Because we want to speed up the voting process for everyone, as a public service we’re offering our recommendations below. Feel free to take this toContinue reading “YSDA Ballot Recommendations”

The school district is the most important institution in Madison. Yet, the race for the one contested seat on the seven-member board has been, to be charitable, somewhat low-profile. Two people have stepped up to run for Seat 6, Badri Lankella and Blair Mosner Feltham. Anyone who comes forward to offer to do these difficult,Continue reading “Badri Lankella For School Board”